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3 weeks ago | 
weeksauthor.com | Sean Weeks
Number One on the Call Sheet opens as a leisurely stroll through a museum of talent, illuminated by interviews with many of the brightest stars in the Hollywood firmament. And my, those stars are stunning! You’ll be repeatedly struck by the effortless charisma and vividness of personalities like Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Cleavon Little. If nothing else, Number One is a potent reminder of why we fell in love with them in the first place.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
Introduction to the World of FrostpunkFrostpunk: The Video Game sports a steampunk coat of paint, the stylish, often meaningless brass cogs and aviator goggles, but the real hook was “global warming in reverse.” It’s a satire equipped with the macabre comedy of that old Robert Frost poem:Some say the world will end in fireSome say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Sean Weeks
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our TV Rewind column! The Paste writers are diving into the streaming catalogue to discuss some of our favorite classic series as well as great shows we’re watching for the first time. Come relive your TV past with us, or discover what should be your next binge watch below:The dead themselves never bothered me. Blotted red by settling blood, their skin was waxy and pallid, but I’m on the autistic spectrum.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
JokkMokk is a 1-5 player card snatchum about kitsch. I don’t mean that in a dour Anton Ego sort of way. I mean that in a Wes Anderson look-at-these-cute-ceramic-doggies-I’ll-take-ten sort of way. With that spirit in mind, the box art goes from “far too busy” to “maybe a littletoo busy.” Its artist, Christina Hägerfors, deserved a bigger box and a bigger board because its current layout feels like playing Where’s Waldo…except that every detail is Waldo.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
I hate Caylus. I note that this is probably a bad opinion to own. My encounter with the World’s First Worker Placement™ missed a key rule and robbed it of some potency, so in a practical sense I’ve never played it. When a mind like Cole Wehrle’s praises its mechanical clarity, I should be wary of this opinion. Nevertheless, I hate Caylus. I hate Caylus because unlike most of the people who approach this assemblage of wooden houses and spreadsheets, I expect to see a castle in the end.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
The titles Root, Oath, Pax Pamir, Arcs, and John Company will most likely ring a bell for regular members of the tabletop community. Like any collaborative project, their success can’t be laid solely at the feet of any one person, but they have a common thread: their designer, Cole Wehrle. Cole’s work has won praise for its ability to balance heavy subject matter, insight into complex subjects, and a surprisingly broad appeal (especially given the density of those subjects).
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May 26, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
Wizardry: Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord inhabits an odd space in the library of deluxe remasters. On the one hand, it’s a laudable project that makes a worthwhile contribution to discourse around computer RPG design. Designed in 1981, one year after Pac Man and seven before the first Final Fantasy, it invented the core gameplay loop of its genre. The tension and rhythm of party management, of juggling supplies and wounds and fight versus flight, started here.
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May 2, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
I buy Rubik’s cubes at the supermarket out of guilt. The brain’s a muscle and I don’t always nourish it properly. When I’m in the middle of something especially stupefying, I need to make promises to my psyche so it doesn’t do anything drastic. “Mistah,” it asks in the tinny register of a Dickensian waif, “we been watchin’ Sistah Wives for the past ‘our. Can we gets somethin’ wiv maths in it?”“Fine, but no addition of sums over five digits, and don’t try to trick me into long division,” I say.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
Product was not provided by the manufacturer for this review. “For thinning my paints, I use ordinary tap water…. [My] palette is anything but hi-tech. I use a cutting mat covered with strips of masking tape. That’s it! (When I grow up and become wiser, I might want to try one of those new and trendy wet-palettes!).”That’s from Colour Harmony: Inside the Artist’s Palette. Its author, Mike Blank, is a Swedish painter whose career in minis reaches back to 1996.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
gamingtrend.com | Sean Weeks
Civilization designer Sid Meier famously said, “Games are a series of interesting decisions.” If you strictly apply that to what you can measure, the effects of your choices as they ripple across a board, then Collectionomics won’t please you. But if, by “decisions,” you include rhetoric—the art of persuasion and the battleground of opinion—then Collectionomics has the potential to scratch an itch few games can reach.
